Show parliamentary poet laureate it is pretty well known that sir wll rid lawson is the recognized poet laureate of the british parliament he Is always on the lookout for inci dents the little episodes that en liven the dull routine of parliament ary life and that lend themselves to utilization as a couplet or a quatrain his extemporaneous verses make a circuit of the house to an ac compani ment of chuckles they are sometimes handed by a minister to the speaker who reads them with a professionally dignified countenance and then pays them the compliment ot a momentary twinkle of his awful eye |